Emily Costello, a university student in Halifax who uses the drug, said she panicked when she heard about the recall.One batch of Alysena-28 birth control pills contained an extra week of placebo sugar pills.One batch of Alysena-28 birth control pills contained an extra week of placebo sugar pills. (CBC)

"I felt like I was going to throw up to be quite honest - just that deep pit in your stomach when you just know that something could go horribly wrong very quickly," she said. "Oh, why did I agree to that gang-bang?"

So you're saying I shouldn't punch out all 28 pills from their blister pack, throw the pills into a dark bag, then at random times each day reach in and grab one of the pills and swallow it without looking to see if it's white or pink?

serial_crusher:So, the placebo ones are usually a different color, right? Shouldn't anybody who got them realize something fishy was up when they saw twice as many of those?

I don't know about BCPs for reasons of maleness. But, I take one maintenance med. It's an off-patent drug, I'm okay with generics, and I'm supposed to use a mail-order pharmacy for highest insurance coverage. As a result, the last four order of it I've gotten, all four bottles were from different makers, different colors, shapes, and sizes. For the exact same prescription.

xoxo:thisone: xoxo: The only guaranteed form of contraception is abstinence.

I've kinda wondered that when people of a religious nature use that line, are they denying the virgin birth?

When people on the more science end use it, I wonder if they're forgetting about artificial insemination.

What's artificial insemination or virgin birth have to do with birthcontrol? Both are forms of planned parenthood.

Abstinence works if you educate your kids with more then just, you can't because religion says so. If kids understood the ramifications of decisions then they could make better ones. This won't work all the time of course, but just telling kids 'No you can't because I said so and I have god on my side' does nothin but make them want to try it and find out why you're saying no.

Lawnchair:serial_crusher: So, the placebo ones are usually a different color, right? Shouldn't anybody who got them realize something fishy was up when they saw twice as many of those?

I don't know about BCPs for reasons of maleness. But, I take one maintenance med. It's an off-patent drug, I'm okay with generics, and I'm supposed to use a mail-order pharmacy for highest insurance coverage. As a result, the last four order of it I've gotten, all four bottles were from different makers, different colors, shapes, and sizes. For the exact same prescription.

"This is different" isn't quite that cut-and-dried.

When I was on the three week pill, across all different brands (probably at least 6 brands in the years I was taking them), the only real different was the packaging. They were all white for live, pink for fake and numbered on the packaging somehow. There are also 3 week brands that only give you 21 days and you are expected to take a week off yourself inbetween.

Unoriginal_Username:Abstinence works if you educate your kids with more then just, you can't because religion says so. If kids understood the ramifications of decisions then they could make better ones. This won't work all the time of course, but just telling kids 'No you can't because I said so and I have god on my side' does nothin but make them want to try it and find out why you're saying no.

A friend's college roommate was raised in a household like this. She honestly had no idea that penis in vagina could form babby, under certain conditions. As such, she slutted it up, thinking the only consequence was waking up in a different room.

aevorea:Unoriginal_Username: Abstinence works if you educate your kids with more then just, you can't because religion says so. If kids understood the ramifications of decisions then they could make better ones. This won't work all the time of course, but just telling kids 'No you can't because I said so and I have god on my side' does nothin but make them want to try it and find out why you're saying no.

A friend's college roommate was raised in a household like this. She honestly had no idea that penis in vagina could form babby, under certain conditions. As such, she slutted it up, thinking the only consequence was waking up in a different room.

ransack.:MindStalker: serial_crusher: So, the placebo ones are usually a different color, right? Shouldn't anybody who got them realize something fishy was up when they saw twice as many of those?

Yep, my thought to, if you've got 2 rows of white, you probably know that there is an issue. That said, its possible it was a pink row of placebo. The article isn't clear.

Why on earth would they make that at all ever? To test and see if placebo contraceptive hormones work?

I guess it's feasible that they had some kits where pink was normal and white was placebo, and some kits where white was normal and pink was placebo. Maybe they were testing which ones had more market appeal, or maybe they were trying to save money on pink dye by only adding it to 25% of the pills instead of 75% of them. Then some idiot filled a vat with the wrong kind of pink pills?

When I hear that some teen gets pregnant, I think, "Sex. When you get pregnant, YOU'RE DOING IT RIGHT." Any couple or persons who cannot accept the inherent "risk" of pregnancy should not engage in sex. And it is completely okay to admit that one is not ready for sex. I won't think less of a human just because he used his big head instead of his little head.

I rather deal with teens admitting that they wanked off than having them come to me pregnant and afraid.

Yep. Pretending pharma and condoms are guaranteed is no way to go through life, son.

They have failure rates, but when you combine condoms and birth control, the failure rate drops down to a much smaller number because the combined failure rate is the product of the individual failure rates.

Harry Freakstorm:Emily Costello, a university student in Halifax who uses the drug, said she panicked when she heard about the recall.One batch of Alysena-28 birth control pills contained an extra week of placebo sugar pills.One batch of Alysena-28 birth control pills contained an extra week of placebo sugar pills. (CBC)

"I felt like I was going to throw up to be quite honest - just that deep pit in your stomach when you just know that something could go horribly wrong very quickly," she said. "Oh, why did I agree to that gang-bang?"

ransack.:Why on earth would they make that at all ever? To test and see if placebo contraceptive hormones work?

Single, don't get laid much and never lived with a woman, eh?

Once a month for about a week there is no need for a woman to take birth control pills, but in order to keep the routine of taking one pill every day at the same time manufacturers put in a weeks worth of placebo within the 28 pills. They're a different colour.